Woman gunned down in El Paso shooting was shielding her 2-month-old son, family says

[orangecrush]

Source: NBC News

Woman gunned down in El Paso shooting was shielding her 2-month-old son, family says
"So he pretty much lived because she gave her life," the woman's sister said. She was among the at least 20 people killed during a mass shooting on Saturday.


Image: A woman sits during a vigil for the victims of an El Paso mass shooting in Juarez, Mexico, on Aug. 3, 2019.
A woman sits during a vigil for the victims of an El Paso mass shooting in Juarez, Mexico, on Aug. 3, 2019.Christian Chavez / AP
Aug. 4, 2019, 11:15 AM EDT
By Associated Press
EL PASO, Texas -- A 25-year-old woman who was shot while apparently shielding her 2-month-old son was among the 20 people killed when a gunman opened fire in a crowded El Paso shopping area, her sister said.

Leta Jamrowski, 19, of El Paso, learned Saturday afternoon that her sister Jordan Anchondo had been shot to death at Walmart while shopping for back-to-school supplies earlier in the day.



Jamrowski spoke to The Associated Press as she paced a waiting room at the University Medical Center of El Paso, where her 2-month-old nephew was being treated for broken bones -- the result of his mother's fall.

"From the baby's injuries, they said that more than likely my sister was trying to shield him," she said. "So when she got shot she was holding him and she fell on him, so that's why he broke some of his bones. So he pretty much lived because she gave her life."

Anchondo was the mother of three children.


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-gunned-down-el-paso-shooting-was-shielding-2-year-n1039061

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[democratisphere]

1. Thoughts and prayers are not stopping the carnage by insane creatures.

Time to get serious and ban all semiautomatic weapons. No excuses. If this doesn't motivate members of Congress, then they should resign today.

[orangecrush]

2. Sorry, but...

a story like this leaves me so aghast I am not capable of making a politically relevant comment.

I am too overwhelmed with grief for that right now.

[smirkymonkey]

7. +1000

[sdfernando]

8. I saw another post, can't find it now

but it basically said about the gun debate in this country that if mowing down little children in school didn't change the debate then the debate is over.

This country (my country) needs to amend the constitution, specifically the 2nd amendment to get these weapons out of peoples hands. Will it happen, doubtful. WE are the ones living in a shithole country!

[democrank]

3. .

[keithbvadu2]

4. Joe The Plumber: 'Your Dead Kids Don't Trump My Constitutional Rights' To Have Guns

Joe The Plumber: ‘Your Dead Kids Don’t Trump My Constitutional Rights’ To Have Guns

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/joe-the-plumber-guns_n_5397981.html

[Ilsa]

10. I remember that. End of his political career, I think. NT

[lordsummerisle]

5. ...

[sarge43]

6. May she rest in light

Comfort for her family

[Politicub]

9. ..

[DrToast]

11. The story is much worse

The husband was also killed in the shooting. Three children lost both of their parents in the shooting.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/08/04/us/el-paso-shooting-victims/index.html

[Vinca]

12. I just heard that and totally lost it. That poor kid is now an orphan.

[orangecrush]

14. Oh God

[Mike_DuBois]

13. No words are sufficient